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Conan Exiles server backups and backup schedules

Keep a Conan Exiles world longer than the game's own backups: take a panel backup under Settings, Backups, and add a schedule to take them for you.

Updated , checked on Conan Exiles Enhanced, server build 25792439

The game makes its own backups of the world, but they are meant for a quick step back. To keep a world for longer, take a panel backup: open Settings, then Backups, and create one. A schedule can take them for you.

Two kinds of backup

  • The game’s own backups. The game copies the world as the server starts and every 5 minutes while it runs. They are listed on the World page under Backups, newest first.
  • Panel backups. You make these on the Backups page, in Settings. They stay until you remove them, and you can lock one so it is never removed by a schedule.

A panel backup copies the server’s files as they are. A backup taken while the server runs says “Taken while running. The game did not confirm a save.” or “Taken while running. The world was saved first.” on its row.

Take a backup by hand

  1. Open Settings, then the Backups tab.
  2. The top line reads “(N) of (M) maximum backups created.” That is your plan’s limit.
  3. Open Create and choose Create Backup, then confirm in the box.
  4. The backup appears in the list with Restore, Lock and Unlock.
The Backups page of a Conan Exiles server with the Create button and the backup limit line above
  1. Create

A backup you take by hand is refused when you are at the limit. Remove one you do not need, or use a bigger plan.

Lock a backup you want to keep for good, such as the world just before a wipe or a big mod change. Unlock lets it be removed again.

Take them on a schedule

A schedule can add a backup for you each day.

  1. Open Settings, then Schedules.
  2. Choose Create Schedule and type a Schedule Name (1), such as “Nightly backup”.
  3. Under Triggers, choose Add Trigger (2). A trigger of type Time Interval (Cron) appears. Set Runs (3) to Daily and set At to the time, or switch on Edit as cron expression if you know cron.
  4. Choose Create (4).
  5. The steps are added after the schedule exists: open it, choose Add Step, then the action Create Backup. A scheduled backup runs while the server runs, and nothing saves the world first.
The Create Schedule dialog with a name, an Add Trigger button, a Time Interval (Cron) trigger set to Daily, and the Create button
  1. Schedule Name
  2. Add Trigger
  3. Runs
  4. Create

Schedules run in the server’s own time zone. Check the Timezone card in Settings.

Putting a world back

To return to a backup, choose Restore on its row. To return to one of the game’s own backups, use Put back on the World page. See restore a backup.

Not checked on “Enhanced, server build 25792439” as of 13 November 2026: how large a panel backup of a Conan Exiles server is, how long it takes, how reliably a copy taken while the server runs restores, and how a restore behaves while the server runs.

If it does not work

  • Create Backup is refused. The server is at the limit. Remove a backup you do not need, or use a bigger plan.
  • A scheduled backup did not run. Check the time zone and the times you set. The Activity tab in Settings lists what happened.
  • A backup I wanted is gone. A scheduled backup at the limit removed the oldest unlocked one. Lock the ones you keep.

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